<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <pre wrap=""> <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">***** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">COLING 2016 Workshop: Grammar and lexicon: interactions and interfaces (GRAMM&LEX) <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">======= <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/grammlex2016">http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/grammlex2016</a> ====== <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Osaka, Japan, Dec. 11, 2016 <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">A full-day workshop organized by Eva Hajicova (Charles University in Prague) and Igor Boguslavsky (Russian Academy of Sciences and Polytechnic University Madrid) <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">IMPORTANT DATES: <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">September 25: Submission deadline<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">October 16: Author notification<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">October 30: Camera ready due by Authors<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">November 6: Proceedings due by Workshop Organizers to Workshop & Publication Chairs<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">December 11: Workshop at COLING 2016 <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AIM OF THE WORKSHOP<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The workshop is aimed at enhancing the linguistic dimension in the CL spectrum, as well as at strengthening the focus on explanatory rather than engineering aspects. The broader theme concerns the relations between GRAMMAR and LEXICON, but the workshop is supposed to be specifically focused on burning issues from that domain such as:<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">** Linguistically oriented issues: valency, and some related special linguistic phenomena such as diathesis; lexicon and morphology (incl. derivational morphology and morphosyntactic features in lexicons and their relation to semantics); lexicons and discourse (e.g. connectors, alternative connecting means);<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">** Lexicon/Grammar interface: types of information in lexical entries; linguistic vs. encyclopaedic information in the dictionary; syntax and phraseology (microsyntax), the grammar of idioms;<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">** Computationally related issues: the role of lexicons in grammar formalisms; lexicons and grammars vs. corpora and treebanks; annotation standards; valency dictionaries;<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">** Semantically driven issues such as semantic representation and lexically-supported inference;<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">** NLP oriented topics: use of lexicons, gazeteers and other man-made or machine-learnt lexical resources in NLP applications; multiword expressions in lexicons and grammars.<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The workshop is intended as a lively forum touching upon issues that might be of interest (and, possibly, an inspiration for application both in theory and in practice) for a broader research community with different background: linguistic, computational or natural language processing. <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">WORKSHOP FORMAT<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">One-day workshop with both (a) presentations of invited statements focused on particular issues, (b) presentations of papers selected through an Open Call for papers with a regular reviewing procedure (presented as short talks of about 20 minutes, incl. discussion, or as posters). The short presentations of leading scholars are supposed to set the framework for the discussion in which all the participants will have space for their engagement. To ensure this, short abstracts of the invited statements are published on the workshop webpage so that the prospective authors of submissions from the Open Call could get inspiration for their own contributions. The emphasis will be put on the novelty of ideas, approaches and methodology. Our intention is to engage all the participants in discussion rather than to organize "another" parallel session of the conference. <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">PAPER SUBMISSIONS<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The authors of the papers are invited to bring in novel, maybe even controversial ideas rather than to repeat old practice. They should choose one thing/topic/issue/method and organize the submission around answering such questions as:<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">1. Is the THING novel, never presented before? If not, why is the presenter repeating something old?<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">2. Is the THING being used in a computational system of any kind? Is such use planned or possible in principle? If not, why not?<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">3. What are the benefits of the THING (this is relevant even for THINGs that are well-known)?<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">4. What are the limitations of the THING (typically people don't write about this)?<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">5. Why do the benefits outweigh the limitations?<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">6. What are the competing approaches to the THING? What is the advantage of the approach proposed?<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">7. What are the next steps in making the THING useful?<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">8. If the THING is not being developed by anybody in the field at this time, why you think it is the case?<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">9. If people aren't interested in the THING, why not? Is it so fringe that it's actually not very interesting?<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">10. Why is the THING relevant? To whom? When? In what way absence of work on THING hampers progress of our field?<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">11. What new information about language functioning do we acquire by means of the THING? <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Paper submissions for the GRAMM&LEX workshop will be handled by the START system. Before submitting your paper, please ensure you have read the instructions below and that your paper uses the prescribed style files. To submit your work, please use the submission page at the following address: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/GramLex">https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/GramLex</a>. For GRAMM&LEX 2016, there will be one category of research papers only, regardless of whether presented as a talk or a poster. All of the accepted submissions will be included in workshop proceedings, in electronic form only.<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The maximum submission length is 8 pages (A4), plus 2 pages of references. <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Authors can indicate their preference for presentation mode (i.e. oral or poster presentation) in the submission form, and the reviewers will recommend an appropriate mode of presentation to the program committee which will then decide. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between research papers presented orally vs. as posters. <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Papers shall be submitted in English, anonymized with regard to the authors and/or their institution (no author-identifying information on the title page nor anywhere in the paper), including referencing style as usual. Authors should also ensure that identifying meta-information is removed from files submitted for review. Reviewing of papers will be blind, and each paper will be reviewed by three reviewers. <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Papers must conform to official COLING 2016 style guidelines, which are available in <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://coling2016.anlp.jp/doc/coling2016.zip">http://coling2016.anlp.jp/doc/coling2016.zip</a>. coling2016.zip has LATEX files, Microsoft Word template file, and sample PDF file. Submission and reviewing will be managed online by the START system. The only accepted format for submitted papers is unsigned, fully self-contained PDF (with fonts etc. included). Submissions must be uploaded on the START system (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/GramLex">https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/GramLex</a>) by the submission deadline (September 25th, 11:59pm GMT-12); submissions after that time will not be reviewed. To minimize network congestion, we request authors to upload their submissions as early as possible. <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Submissions will be judged on several factors, including originality, technical strength, technical soundness, significance, relevance to the workshop, alignment with the workshop aims and clarity. <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">DUAL SUBMISSION POLICY: Papers being submitted to other conferences or workshops can be submitted in parallel to GRAMM&LEX, on condition that submissions at other conferences or workshops will be withdrawn if the paper is accepted for GRAMM&LEX. Authors must clearly indicate, on the title page during submission, the names of the other conferences or workshops to which the paper is being submitted and declare that they will withdraw these other submissions if the paper is accepted for GRAMM&LEX 2016. <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Convenors of the GRAMM&LEX workshop <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Eva Hajicova (Charles University in Prague)<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Igor Boguslavsky (Russian Academy of Sciences and <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Polytechnic University Madrid) </pre> </body> </html>